Kristen LaBrie gets 8-10 years for withholding son's cancer meds

LAWRENCE - A Massachusetts woman convicted of attempted murder for withholding her son's cancer medications has been sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison, plus five years of probation.

Kristen LaBrie was sentenced today in Lawrence Superior Court.

The Salem woman convicted Tuesday faced a maximum of 20 years on the attempted murder charge, 10 years on a charge of assault and battery on a disabled person, five years on assault and battery on a child causing substantial injury and 2 1/2 years on reckless endangerment of a child.

Authorities say LaBrie stopped filling her autistic son Jeremy Fraser's cancer medication prescriptions.

The boy died in 2009 at age 9.

Her lawyers say she was simply overwhelmed by caring for her son and thought the drugs were making him worse.

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